On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=220250 > > If this is the CNBC-Cramer takedown, everybody should watch it. > It's devastating.
You mean his takedown of CNBC and its opinionated host Rick Santelli. The whole episode is indeed well worth watching. It shows the continuing education of the comedian. At one point he refers to the Dow as "a short twitch numerical representation of a bunch of guesses about other peoples' assumptions about the financial well-being of an arbitrary chosen group of 30, out of tens of thousands of possible companies." Which I think is an astonishingly informed remark. Actually there is a quite entertaining backstory to the Rick Santelli takedown. Stewart was responding to the now-infamous rant by Santelli where he railed against "Obama's bailout of loser home-owners" - get this - from the trading floor of the Chicago Merc Exchange. He called for a new "Chicago tea party". His remark attained instant notoriety and Playboy published an expose (sorry couldn't resist) of some conservative groups that claimed that Santelli's rant was not actually spontaneous. Santelli ended up doing a round of clarifications and denials including cancellation of his Daily Show appearance which was the immediate provocation for the Daily Show episode. The whole story is quite entertaining: http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/ http://chicagoteaparty.com/ -raghu. -- "Last night my friend drank 26 bottles of O'Douls... He is a non-alcoholic." - Mitch Hedberg _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
